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1826

1826: The Rural Code is enacted to attach agricultural laborers to specific plantations and prevent what it c

1826: The Rural Code is enacted to attach agricultural laborers to specific plantations and prevent what it called vagrancy. This labor law was an attempt by the landowning oligarchs to restore the industrial agricultural output of the colonial era.

Source  ·  p. 68 Nicholls, From Dessalines to Duvalier, 68